In the past month, bed and breakfast owner Chen Yu-lin had to tell his guests he couldn’t provide them with the Internet. Know more:
NANGAN, Taiwan—In the past month, bed and breakfast owner Chen Yu-lin had to tell his guests he couldn’t provide them with the Internet.
“A lot of tourists would cancel their booking because there’s no Internet. Nowadays, the Internet plays a very large role in people’s lives,” said Chen, who lives in Beigan, one of Matsu’s main residential islands. Internet cables, which can be anywhere between 20 millimeters to 30 millimeters wide, are encased in steel armor in shallow waters where they’re more likely to run into ships. Despite the protection, cables can get cut quite easily by ships and their anchors, or fishing boats using steel nets.
Faced with unusual difficulties, Matsu residents came up with all sorts of ways to organize their lives. Wang Chung Ming, the head of Lienchiang County, as the Matsu islands are officially called, said he and the legislator from Matsu went to Taipei shortly after the Internet broke down to ask for help, and was told they would get priority in any future Internet backup plans.
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